"Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdad, or other?" Topic

So, what do you call those small, delicious, little freshwater lobsters, more commonly known as……..?

Crayfish
Crawfish
Crawdad
Freshwater Lobster
Langostino (that's what some restaurants and grocery stores call them so they can charge more)
Mudbug
Mudpuppy
Yabby
Other?

Sorry, "No Opinion" isn't an option for this poll, but you can add in other names not listed above, if you come up with any others frequently used.

Crayfish

"Cthuloid horrors from beyond space and time"

I didn't grow up 'round them 'ere parts, but I always saw it as "Crawfish".

Crawdad

Crawdad is what I grew up with, altho' Crawfish is more common round these parts.

Astacoidea.

I thought crayfish, crawfish, and crawdads were three separate species of similar crustaceans.

I alternate between crayfish and crawfish, as the mood strikes.

Did you know that they're related to pillbugs/rolly-pollies?

Crayfish.

Small??

I saw some exoskeletons in some tumbleweeds in a dry irrigation ditch in Eastern Colorado that were 9-10 inches long.

My nephew would have loved to get that one in a pot.

When he was 5 over here in SW Colorado he and his sisters caught one crossing the driveway about 100 yards from the small town reservoir.

Put it in a bucket of water for a couple of days then the nephew dropped it head first into the boiling pot. He was the one who actually caught it so he got the tail.

Had a good thick shell on it.

Crayfish.

Breakfast!

Crawdad

Spell them however you like, but the word is pronounced "crawdad".

Florida Tony has it right although mudbugs is also popular thee parts.

If they are in a ditch and kids are playing with them, crawdads, if they are piled high on your plate and you are sucking the heads, crawfish. Mudbugs for fun.

Crawdad.

Ferskvannskreps

Usually crayfish, but I love the word 'mudpuppy'.

A friend in college got a mistaken library fine notice for a book entitled, A Handbook of the Crayfishes of Ontario. I still laugh when I consider that such a book exists!

Are you sure crayfish isn't some sort of Canadian code for bordello?

Crawdads, here in Washington State. We used to hunt them when I was a kid and then boil them up in a pot. Serve with melted butter and a nutcracker and feast!

Crawdad. At least in my part of the South.

Crayfish where I come from. I will answer for my amigo Tango01 and offer up cangrejo de río.

Mudbugs is popular in Louisiana but crawfish is the most common name. Even when the word is spelled "crayfish", it's still pronounced "crawfish" by the indigenes.

Mako11 & Spudeus: scientifically speaking "mudpuppy" is a species of salamander (Necturus maculosus). I've eaten some mighty weird stuff in my life but I think I'd draw the line there.

LT

Definitely CRAWFISH
CRAYFISH are the tropical American pincerless ( or very small pincered ) ocean lobsters ( mainly Panaluris species)
Lobsters are the ones with the big pincers ( Homard , or Maine Lobster in the US)

We always called them crawdads, but I never was able to tell them from crawmoms.

Crawdad's

crawfish

Crawdads and crayfish used interchangeably